LB 1772 

.05 fl5 

1914 

Copy 1 ^^___ 

of the 

oard of Education 

with the Provisions of the Statutes 

Concerning the Issuing 
of 

TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES 




STATE 

COUNTY AND CITY 

CERTIFICATES 



September, 1914 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 



State of Oklahoma 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 

of the 

State Board of Education 

With the Provisions of the Statutes 

Concerning the Issuing 
of 

TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES 



STATE, 

COUNTY AND CITY 

CERTIFICATES 

September, 1914 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 



STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 



President 
R. H. Wilson, State Sup't., Oklahoma City 

Members 

A. W. Duff Mangum 

Francis B. Fite Muskogee 

B. H. Hester Claremore 

H. C. Potterf Ardmore 

W. E. Rowsey Muskogee 

J. F. Warren Oklahoma City 

Leslie T. Huffman, Secretary State Board of 
Education. 

E. A. Duke, Assistant State Superintendent. 



Sept. 1, 1914. 



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NOTICE: The rules and regulations here- 
**, In contained shall supersede all former rules 
and regulations governing the Issuing of state 
certificates in the State of Oklahoma. 



OKLAHOMA STATE CERTIFICATES 

Kinds of State Certificates. 

The following classes of state certificates 
shall be issued by the State Board of Educa- 
tion and shall be valid to teach in the follow- 
ing specified grades: 

Primary Certificates, authorizing the holder 
to teach in the primary grades (first to fourth 
inclusive) of any public school in the state. 

Grammar Grade Certificate, authorizing the 
holder thereof to teach in all rural schools, the 
primary grades, and grammar grades (fifth to 
eighth inclusive) of any city in the state. 

General High School Certificate, authoriz- 
ing the holder thereof to teach in the primary, 
grammar grades and high schools of the state. 
Certificate to Teach or Supervise in Special 
Subjects may be granted to an applicant pre- 
senting proof of graduation from the depart- 
ment of special work for which certificate is re- 
quired, provided such school and department 
shall be approved by the State Board of Edu- 
cation; provided, further, that such applicant 
shall pass the examination in special and pro- 
fessional subjects. (See Requirements for 
State Certificates by Examination, 1, ^'d".) 



Normal School Certificate. Anyone not less 
than eighteen years of age who has finished 
the first four years' work of the State Normal 
Schools of Oklahoma and has had regular 
courses in Psychology, School Management and 
Observation may be granted a certificate by 
the State Board of Education good for two 
years, of equal standing with a First Grade 
County Certificate after such certificate has 
been registered with the county superintend- 
ent of the county in which the holder desires 
to teach. Such certificate shall not be subject 
to renewal and the grades shall not be trans- 
ferred to any other state certificate. 

State University Certificate. A person who 
has finished the first two years' work of the 
State University of Oklahoma and has had 
regular courses in Psychology and Education 
may be granted a certificate by the State Board 
of Education valid for two years, of equal 
standing with a First Grade County Certificate 
after such celtificate has been registered with 
the county superintendent of the county in 
which the holder desires to teach. Such cer- 
tificate shall not be subject to renewal. 

University Preparatory School Certificate. 
A re'gular graduate of one of the University Pre- 
paratory Schools may be granted a certificate 
valid for two years on the same basis as those 
who have completed four years of work in the 
State Normal Schools; provided such graduate 
has completed the following professional stud- 
ies: Elementary Psychology, Theory and Prac- 



tice of Teaching, History of Education and one 
year of Observational Work. 

NOTE: The above named certificates shall 
be valid in all rural schools and in all towns 
except independent districts when they have 
been regi^stered with the county superintendent 
of the county in which the rural school or town 
is situated, and they should be valid in inde- 
pendent districts subject to the additional re- 
quirements of the examining boards of said dis- 
tricts when registere»d with the clerk of the 
board of education of such independent dis- 
tricts. 

Rural School Certificate. Upon completion 
of the rural teachers' certificate course, in- 
cluding four full years work above the eighth 
grade, at least one year's work being done in 
residence, in any one of the State Normal 
Schools, a rural school certificate good for 
three years will be issued. This certificate is 
good anywhere in the state for a period of 
three years, at the expiration of which period 
it may be renewed for the original period, pro- 
vided the holder has during its life attended a 
State Normal School at least one full term. 
Upon the same conditions the certificate may 
be renewed at each expiration until a life cer- 
tificate has been secured by graduating from 
the Normal School. 

Institute Conductors' and Instructors' Cer- 
tificates, authorizing the holder thereof to con- 
duct or instruct in county institutes. 

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General Requirements. 

1. No person who has not attained the age 
of twent3'-one years shall be granted a regular 
state certificate except a Normal School grad- 
uate or a student in an Oklahoma institution 
who has completed the work required for a 
Normal School, University, University Pre- 
paratory School or Rural School Certificate. An 
applicant for a State Certificate must be a 
resident of the State or must be elected to a 
position in Oklahoma before a certificate will 
be granted. 

2. Application for a state certificate for a 
graduate, either regular or special, must be ac- 
companied by a recommendation from .the 
president of the institution from which the ap- 
plicant graduated and from the head of the 
department in which the applicant specialized. 
The applicant must present a record of the 
work done in the institution from which he 
graduated upon a blank furnished by the State 
Board of Education and signed by the registrar 
of such school. 

3. An applicant for a State Certificate by 
complete examination or upon a certificate 
from another state, shall file proof of at least 
two years of successful experience in the same 
character or grade of work for which the cer- 
tificate is sought, and must file a statement 



from the county superintendent or the city su- 
perintendent of the county or city in which 
he has taught to the effect that his work has 
been satisfactory during the tenure of his 
certificate. 

4. All applications for state certificates, or 
for renewal of certificates, must be filed with 
the Secretary of the State Board of Education 
at least thirty days prior to the date of the 
examination. 

5. All inquiries concerning state certificates 
and applications for certificates should be ad- 
dressed to the Secretary of the State Board 
of Education, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

6. Regular examinations for state cer- 
tificates except Institute Conductor's and In- 
structor's Certificates, will be given the last 
Thursday, Friday and Saturday in May at the 
following named places: The University of 
Oklahoma at Norman; Central State Normal 
School, Edmond; Northeastern State Normal 
School at Tahlequah; Southeastern State Nor- 
mal School at Durant; East Central State Nor- 
mal School at Ada; Northwestern State Nor- 
mal School at Alva; Southwestern State Nor- 
mal School at Weatherford; Agricultural and 
Mechanical College at Stillwater; University 
Preparatory School at Tonkawa; Eastern Uni- 
versity Preparatory School at Claremore; Pan- 
handle Agicultural Institute at Goodwell and 
the Colored Agricultural and Normal Univer- 
sity at Langston. Teachers desiring to take 
the «tate examination must give written notice 

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to the President of the institution in which 
they expect to take the examination at least 
fifteen days before the date set for examina- 
tion. Examinations for Institute Conductor's 
and Instinictor's Certificates will be held 
in the office of each county superintendent in 
the State on the last Saturday of January each 
year. No special examinations will be given 
after this date. 

7. All state certificates issued by the State 
Board of Education and all normal school di- 
plomas must be registered with the county su- 
perintendent of the county where the holder 
teaches, or with the clerk of the board of edu- 
cation, if the holder teaches in an independent 
district. The document is not valid as a cer- 
tificate until it is registered according to the 
above provisions. 

8. A state certificate shall expire when the 
holder thereof has been out of school work 
for a period of two years, and has been a non- 
resident of the state for a period of one year, 
unless his absence from the state is caused by 
attending school in some other state. A lapsed 
certificate may be renewed upon satisfactory 
evidence being presented to the State Board 
of Education that the holder thereof is worthy 
of such renewal. 

9. Any certificate issued by the State 
Board of Education may be revoked on the 
grounds of immorality, gross neglect of duty, 
annulling written contracts with boards of edu- 
cation and district boards without the consent 



of a majority of the board which is a party to 
the contract, or for any cause that would have 
justified the withholding thereof when the 
same was granted. 



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Requirements for State Certificates. 
By Examination. 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
1. To be entitled to a two-year renewable 
certificate the candidate must pass a satisfac- 
tory examination in the following branches: 

(a) For a Primary Certificate: Agriculture, 
arithmetic, domestic science, drawing, geog- 
raphy, history of education, history and civics 
of Oklahoma, hygiene and school sanitation, 
language, music, nature study, orthography, 
penmanship, physical training, primary meth- 
ods, primary reading, psychology, school laws 
of Oklahoma, school management. 

(b) For a Grammar Grade Certificate: Ag- 
riculture, elementary algebra, arithmetic, 
bookkeeping, civil government, composition, 
domestic economy, drawing, English literature, 
American literature, English grammar, geog- 
raphy, general history, history of education. 
United States history, history and civics of 
Oklahoma, music, methods and management, 
penmanship, physiology, physiography, psychol- 
ogy, physics, reading, school laws of Oklahoma, 
spelling. 

(c) For a High School Certificate: All 
subjects required for the Grammar Grade Cer- 
tificate and the following in addition thereto: 

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High school algebra, botany, chemistry, plane 
geometry, solid geometry, English history, 
Latin or German, philosophy of education, po- 
litical economy, biology. 

(d) For Special High School Certificate: 
Agriculture, domestic economy, Oklahoma his- 
tory and civics, pedagogy, psychology, history 
of education, school laws of Oklahoma. The 
applicant for this certificate must present 
proof of graduation from the department of 
special work for which the certificate is re- 
quired with standing in the special subjects 
certified by the registrar of the school. 

2. Applicants for the two-year renewable 
certificates must have taught two years and 
must produce satisfactory testimonials from 
reputable persons in regard to moral character 
and professional standing. 

3. An average standing of ninety per cent- 
um with not less than seventy-five per centum 
in any subject will be required for all state 
certificates. Grades of the required standing 
(ninety per centum) may be carried for two 
years. 

4. At the expiration of this certificate the 
holder will be granted a five-year certificate 
upon furnishing satisfactory evidence of hav- 
ing taught successfully at least forty weeks 
during the tenure of the certificate. 

NORMAL INSTITUTES. 

(a) For Instructor's Certificate: Examina- 
tion for instructor's certificate will be given in 

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Rhetoric and Composition, American Literature^ 

English Literature, History of Education, Psy- 
chology, Methods and Management, the last 
Saturday in January at the office of the coun- 
ty superintendent in the several counties. An 
applicant for an instructor's certificate must be 
twenty-three years of age, the holder of at least 
a first grade county certificate, and must have 
had at least three years of successful experi- 
ence as a teacher. 

(b) For Conductor's Certificate: For a 
conductor's certificate the applicant must be 
examined in the required branches for an in- 
structor's certificate and in philosophy of edu- 
cation and Oklahoma school law. Applicants 
for conductors' certificates must have instruc- 
ted in at least one institute preceding the date 
of application, shall have attained the age of 
twenty-five, and shall have taught five years 
successfully. 

Applicants for Institute Certificates by ex- 
amination must make a general average of 
ninety per centum, with no grade below seven- 
ty-five per centum. 



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Requirements for State Certificates. 
Upon Credentials. 

(a) Graduates of the arts and science 
course of any accredited institution of learning 
of Oklahoma or of other states, who have com- 
pleted a course of study which shall have in- 
cluded the subjects required for the teacher's 
diploma of the University of Oklahoma, as ap- 
proved by the State Board of Education, will be 
granted a General High School Certificate valid 
for five years. At the expiration of that certi- 
ficate the holder will be granted a renewal for 
a like period upon furnishing satisfactory evi- 
dence of having taught successfully at least 
three years out of the five. 

(b) Graduates of the normal courses of 
colleges of this state or of other states ac- 
credited by the State Board of Education and 
graduates of accredited normal schools of other 
states who have had at least forty weeks ot 
successful experience in teaching may secure a 
five-year state certificate of the kind justified 
by their credits by passing a state examination 
in all subjects required for an Oklahoma state 
■certificate in, which they do not furnish credit 
from the institution from which they graduated" 
The applicants' entrance grades accepted by an 
accredited institution will be accepted towards 
an Oklahoma certificate. Provided, that the 

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State Board of Education may waive the re- 
quired teaching experience if applicant is a 
graduate of at least a two-year normal college 
course in an accredited State Normal and has 
completed thirty-six weeks of practice teaching 
and observation and furnishes recommenda- 
tions of superior ability as a teacher from the 
supervising critic teacher and the head of the 
training department and the president of the 
institution. 

(c) Graduates of any four-year college 
course of study in the State University or the 
State Agricultural College, or of any approved 
four-year collegiate course in accredited insti- 
tutions of learning, who have had at least forty 
weeks of experience in teaching may be grant- 
ed a state certificate upon passing the state 
examination in history of education, philosophy 
of education, methods and management, psy- 
chology, Oklahoma school laws, agriculture, do- 
mestic science, Oklahoma history- and civics. 

(d) Persons holding state certificates from 
other states where the requirements for cer- 
tificates represent the same standard as to 
quantity and quality of scholarship, who have 
had at least forty weeks of successful experi- 
ence in teaching, may be granted state certifi- 
cates of the kind justified by their grades; pro- 
vided such applicants shall pass an examina- 
tion in all branches required for the Oklahoma 
state certificate which are not required in the 
state in which the certificate was issued, or 
shall present from an approved college or state 

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normal school satisfactory proof to the State 
Board of Education of proficiency in such 
branches. 

(e) Certificates to teach or supervise in 
special subjects may be granted to applicants 
presenting proof of graduation from the de- 
partment of special work for which the cer- 
tificate is required, provided such school and 
department shall be approved by the State 
Board of Education; provided, further, that 
such applicant shall pass the examination in 
the special and professional subjects enumera- 
ted in the Requirements for State Certificates 
by Examination (1, d). 

(f) Institute certificates may be issued 
upon recommendation to persons whose pro- 
fessional fitness for institute work entitles 
them to recognition by the State Board of 
Education, and who shall be the holders of 
state certificates, or of normal school diplo- 
mas, or shall, because of eminent professional 
experience and ability in educational work, be 
entitled to the granting of such certificates. 

An applicant for a. state certificate upon 
credentials, as provided in the foregoing re- 
quirements, will, upon the acceptance of such 
credentials, be granted a temporary state cer- 
tificate valid for one year during the tenure of 
which certificate additional requirements may 
be complete(^. At the expiration of the tem- 
porary certificate the applicant shall present 
to the State Board of Education a statement 
from the county superintendent, or from the 

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city superintendent of the city employing a 
city superintendent, that his work has been 
satisfactory during the tenure of the certificate 



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GENERAL INFORMATION 

Graduates of accredited Normal Schools, 
Colleges and Universities, applying for state 
teachers' certificates shall' be required to sub- 
mit to the State Board of Education, on blank 
forms furnished by it, a detailed record show- 
ing the amount and kind of preparatory, col- 
legiate and professional work completed, and 
that the requirements of the State Board of 
Education have been complied with. 

The State Board of Education does not in- 
terpret the foregoing rules in regard to the ac- 
ceptance of credentials from an accredited in- 
stitution to bind the board to the acceptance 
of all credentials. Each case will be consid- 
ered on its merits. 

Credits will not be accepted from schools or 
colleges in other states if the state in which 
the school is located does not accept such 
credits on a state certificate. 

Grades from county certificates, city certif- 
icates, or expired state certificates will not be 
accepted in lieui of those required for a state 
certificate. Grades from the Oklahoma state 
schools or accredited schools in other states 
will not be accepted unless the applicant is a 
graduate, except for certificates as may be is- 
sued under the foregoing rules to students of 
the Oklahoma Normals and the University of 

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Oklahoma, who have met the requirements of 
the State Board of Education for such certi- 
ficates. 

No fee is required for state certificates. Ap- 
plicants by examination are expected to pay 
the expense of forwarding their papers to the 
State Department. 

Application blanks for state certificates slvq 
furnished by the State Board of Education, and 
must be filled out accurately before they will 
be accepted. Carelessness in this respect will 
be sufficient cause for rejecting the applica- 
tion. 

P'ailure on the part of a teacher to keep up 
his professional work will be considered cause 
for cancelling his certificate. 

The State Board of Education strongly rec- 
ommends that the additional requirements of 
those teachers receiving state certificates upon 
credentials be made Ijy doing credit work at 
one of the State Schools of Oklahoma. 



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Accredited Institutions. 

1. Any institution of learning in Oklahoma 
or other states desiring to be a-ccredited by 
the State Board of Education, shall submit a 
full outline of its course of study together with 
a definite statement of the standard required 
for admission, of the amount of time given to 
every subject, of the scope of work and the 
text used in each, of the maximum number 
of hours a student is permitted to carry, of 
the amount of laboratory work required, and of 
the proficiency demanded in final examination. 
If, in the judgment of the board, the course 
meets the requirements, the institution shall be 
placed on the accredited list. The application 
must be complete and must be accompanied by 
a late catalog of the school with the fullest 
possible information as to the school's profes- 
sional library and other equipment which bears 
especially upon the subject of teaching. 

2. An accredited college or university 
whose graduates are entitled to state certifi- 
cates under the foregoing regulations must be 
an institution of higher learning recognized as 
a standard college of liberal arts, requiring the 
completion of a four-year secondary course 
above the eighth grade for entrance and main- 
taining a four-y-ear course, thereafter for gradu- 
ation, with a faculty properly qualified, and 

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possessing adequate equipment and means of 
support and maintaining at least seven sep- 
arate departments or chairs. In case the 
pedagogical Avork of the institution is to be ac- 
cepted without examination, the college must 
maintain at least eight chairs, one of which 
must b-e devoted exclusively to education or 
at most to psychology and education and shall 
maintain a pedagogical library having stand- 
ard works and periodicals on psychology and 
education. The minimum amount of pedago- 
gical work in any fully accredited college which 
will be accepted by the State Board of Edu- 
cation shall be equivalent to the requirements 
for the teacher's diploma of the University of 
Oklahoma. 

3. An accredited normal school or teachers' 
college shall meet the following requirements: 

(a) There must be five or more teachers 
who shall be graduates of standard normal 
schools, standard colleges or universities doing 
graduate work, devoting their time exclusively 
to the work of the normal courses. 

(b) For entrance, four years' work above 
the eighth grade in an approved four-year high 
school or its undoubted equivalent. 

(c) For graduation therefrom, a minimum 
requirement of two years additional work in- 
cluding a thorough review of the common 
branches and training in the practice school. 

(d) The maintenance of a well equipped 
training school for observation and practice, 
such school to cover work in the eight ele- 

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mentary grades; adequate laboratory facilities 
for teaching the various sciences offered; a 
library of at least 2500 volumes, rich in stand- 
ard books on educational subjects, educational 
reports and journals. 

4. An accredited normal department of a 
college that does not meet the requirements of 
a standard college must fulfill the following 
conditions : 

(a) The work of such normal department 
must be in charge of a competent director, who 
shall organize and manage the work of the 
department. The teachers in the normal de- 
partment must meet the same general require- 
ments as teachers in normal schools. 

(b) The requirements of normal schools 
such as admission of students, standard of 
work, laboratory and library equipment, train- 
ing school, etc., apply without change to normal 
departments. 

(c) A sufficient annual income for main- 
taining the department in a manner satisfac- 
tory to the State Board of Education must be 
provided. 

5. Institutions specializing in such branches 
of study as music, manual training, domestic 
science and art whose entrance requirements, 
courses, faculty and equipment meet the ap- 
proval of the State Board of Education may 
be placed on the accredited list and the grad- 
uates of such special courses be entitled to 
credit towards special certificates. 

6. The Oklahoma State Board of Education 

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has accredited all state universities, normal 
schools and normal training departments meet- 
ing the requirements of sections 2, 3, 4 and 5, 
and the schools of college rank of the North 
Central Association of Colleges and Secondary- 
Schools. Information regarding the standing 
of any institution may be secured by address- 
ing the Secretary of the State Board of Educa- 
tion, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 



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County Certificates. 
Article; 14 of the 1913 School Laws. 
Sec. 191- Board of Examiners, Term and 
Compensation: In each county there shall be 
a board of county examiners composed of the 
county superintendent of public instraction, 
who shall be ex-officio chairman of said board, 
and two competent persons, holders of first 
grade certificates or diplomas from some state 
university, normal school or agricultural col- 
lege, who shall be appointed by such county 
superintendent and shall serve from the time 
of their appointment until their successors have 
been appointed and each member of the ex- 
amining board shall receive for his services 
the sum of three dollars per day, not to exceed 
five days in any one quarter of the year, ex- 
cept at the close of the normal institute not to 
exceed ten days, said sums to be paid from 
contingent fund of the county; Provided, each 
member of the board shall receive pay for 
only the number of days he or she is employed 
in holding examinations and grading papers. 
Sec. 192. Examination Dates: The board, 
two of whom shall constitute a quorum, shall 
on the fourth Thursday and the Friday and 
Saturday following of January, April and Octo- 
ber and at the close of the normal institute 
for that county, only at such places as may be 



designated by such county superintendent 
(who shall give ten days' notice by publication 
in the official paper of the county) shall pub- 
licly examine all persons proposing to teach in 
the public schools of the county, as to their 
competency to teach the branches prescribed 
by law; and such board of examiners shall is- 
sue certificates, as hereinafter p^o^ided, to all 
such applicants as shall pass the required ex- 
amination and satisfy the board as to their 
good moral character and their ability to teach 
and govern schools successfully. 

Sec. 193. Certificates Issued: Certificates 
issued by the county boards shall be of three 
grades: first, second and third, and shall con- 
tinue in force respectively, four years, two 
years and one year. 

Sec. 194' First Grade Certificate: Certifi- 
cates of the first grade shall certify that the 
person to "whom they are issued is proficient in 
and fully qualified to teach algebra, physics, 
American literature, arithmetic, composition, 
civics, elementary psychology. English gram- 
mar, geography, Oklahoma history and gov- 
ernment, orthography, physiology and hygiene, 
reading, theory and practice of teaching. Uni- 
ted States history, writing and the elements of 
agriculture, domestic science, music and gen- 
eral history, and shall not be issued to any 
person under twenty years of age, and not to 
those who have not taught successfully twelve 
school months; Provided, that no person who 
receives a first grade certificate shall make a 



general average of less than ninety per cent, 
and not below seventy-five per cent in any 
one subject. 

Sec. 195. Second Grade Certificate: Cer- 
tificates of the second grade may be issued to 
persons not less than eighteen years of age, 
who shall fully satisfy the board as to their 
ability to teach all the branches prescribed for 
first grade certificates, except algebra, phys- 
ics and general history, and who have taught 
successfully six school months: Provided, that 
no person who receives a second grade certi- 
ficate shall make a general average of less 
than eighty per cent or not below sixty-five 
per cent in any one subject. 

Sec. 196. Third Grade Certificate: Certi- 
ficates of the third grade shall certify that the 
person to whom they are issued is not under 
eighteen years of age and is proficient in and 
fully qualified to teach all the branches pre- 
scribed for a second grade certificate, except 
American literature and psychology, and made 
a general average of not less than seventy- 
five per cent and not below sixty per cent in 
any one subject; and no third grade certificate 
shall be issued more than twice to the same 
person. 

Sec. 197- Renewals: All county teachers' 
certificates may be renewed for the term for 
which they were originally issued by the coun- 
ty superintendent of public instruction, upon 
satisfactory evidence that the holder has at- 
tended seventy-five per cent of the normal in- 



stitutes or teachers' training courses held in 
the county where he taught or has taken as 
many as ten weeks' special training in any of 
the state normal schools, and has attended as 
many as fifty per cent of the county teachers' 
associations held in the county during the time 
the certificate was in force and has been en- 
gaged continuously in teaching. 

Sec. 198. Certificates Valid in Other 
Counties — Revocation — State Certificate: No 
third grade certificate shall be in force except 
in the county in which it is issued: Provided, 
that the county superintendent shall endorse 
the unexpired first grade certificates issued 
in any other county, and all second grade cer- 
tificates shall be endorsed by the county su- 
perintendent of any county adjoining the coun- 
ty in which said second grade certificate was 
issued, which certificate shall thereby be valid 
in the county in which such endorsement is 
made for the unexpired term of the certificate. 
A certificate issued under this act may be re- 
voked by the board of examiners on the ground 
of immorality, or for any other cause that 
would have justified the withholding thereof 
when the same was granted: Provided, that 
if persons who apply for a first grade certifi- 
cate desire a state certificate of the same 
grade they may make application to the coun- 
ty superintendent of public instruction at the 
time they make preliminary application for the 
exam.ination that their papers be forwarded 
to the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

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tion and shall pay such county superintendent 
an additional fee of two dollars, then at the 
close of the examination, after all papers have 
been graded and certificates Issued, such coun- 
ty superintendent shall forward to the State 
Superintendent the examination papers of the 
applications for state certificates and fee of 
two dollars. The state superintendent, upon 
receipt of the manuscripts and fee of two 
dollars, shall cause the papers to be examined 
and if it is found that the grades are suffi- 
cient as provided by section 194 of this article, 
the said State Superintendent shall notify the 
applicant of that fact and if the applicant had 
received a county certificate from the county 
board of examJners, he shall send the county 
certificate to the state superintendent to be 
cancelled and receive in return a state certifi- 
cate of the first grade^ and if no county cer- 
tificate had been issued to the applicant, the 
state superintendent shall send the applicant 
a state certificate when notifying him of his 
grades, if the applicants are entitled to receive 
the same. The fees required In this section 
for state certificates shall be used by the state 
superintendent to employ competent persons 
to grade manuscripts forwarded to him by 
such county superintendents: Provided fur- 
ther, that all first grade certificates may bet 
renewed for four years by the state superin- 
tendent upon satisfactory evidence that the 
holder has attended seventy-five per cent of 
the normal Institutes held in the county where 

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he taught, or has taken as many as twenty 
weeks special training in one of the state nor- 
mal schools, and had attended as many as fifty 
per cent of the county and state teachers' as- 
sociations held in the county and state during 
the time the certificate was In force and has 
been engaged continuously in teaching. 

Sec. 199. — Carrying of Grades Prohibited: 
No person shall be permitted to carry any 
grades from a certificate of a lower grade to 
a certificate of a higher grade: Provided, that 
credits secured within three years from any of 
the state normal schools, the State University, 
and the Agricultural and Mechanical College 
on subjects that would entitle the holder to 
graduation on that subject may be substituted 
in lieu of an examination on that subject and 
said credits may be carried from a certificate 
of a lower grade to a certificate of a higher 
grade. 

Sec. 200. Temporary Certificates: The 
county superintendent, upon request made in 
writing by any district board, and after satis- 
fying himself by examination of the ability or 
proficiency of the applicant, may grant a tem- 
porary certificate in case of necessity valid 
only in the designated district, and valid only 
until the next regular examination by the coun- 
ty board of examiners; Provided, that no such 
temporary certificate shall be granted to any 
applicant who has failed in examination at 
any such regular meeting of the board, nor 

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shall such certificate be granted twice to the 
same person: Provided further, that the county 
superintendent shall not be compelled to charge 
for the issuance of temporary certificates. 

Sec. 201. No Certificate Without Examina- 
tion — Penalty: No certificate shall be issued 
by any board of county examiners except on 
examination as herein provided and any county 
superintendent or member of the county board 
of examiners who violates any of the provisions 
of this article, not otherwise provided, shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction shall be fined in any sum not less 
than one hundred dollars and not more than 
five hundred dollars. 

Sec. 202. Disposing of Questions Prohibited 
—Penalty: Should any person offer to sell, bar- 
ter or give away what purports to be copies of 
questions to be given at a future examination, 
he shall b^ guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction shall be fined in any sum not less 
than one hundred dollars nor more than three 
hundred dollars and shall be confined in the 
county jail for not less than thirty days nor 
more than six months and be forever barred 
from teaching in any of public schools of this 
state. 

Sec. 203' Same: Should any printer or 
party who has custody of the examination ques- 
tions prior to the date of the examination will- 
fully permit the same to fall into the hands 
of parties unauthorized by law to receive them 

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(he) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction shall be punished as provided in 
section 201 of this article. 

Sec. 204. Regulations for Handling Ques- 
tions: Questions for the examination shall be 
printed by the direction of the state superinten- 
dent and shall be furnished the county super- 
intendents of public instruction only upon writ- 
ten requisition for the same. The questions for 
each day shall be securely sealed in separate 
envelopes, and the three envelopes securely 
wrapped in a package. The package contain- 
ing the envelopes shall have written or printed 
thereon a notice of the contents and the date 
of the examination. On the morning of the 
first day of the examination, after the prelim- 
inary applications have been made, the original 
package shall be opened by the party conduct- 
ing the examination in the presence of the 
persons applying for certificates, and the en- 
velopes taken therefrom. The envelope contain- 
ing the questions for the first day shall then 
be opened in the presence of the persons ap- 
plying for certificates, and on the mornings of 
the second and third days the other envelopes 
shall be so opened. Persons violating the pro- 
visions of this section shall be guilty of a mis- 
demeanor and upon conviction shall be punish- 
ed as provided in section 201 of this article. 

Sec. 205. Giving Aid Prohibited. If any 
person offers to give or receive aid during 
the examination, it shall be the duty of such 

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county superintendent, or the person conduct- 
ing the examination, to compel such person or 
persons to retire from the examination and he 
shall he harred from receiving a certificate for 
one year. 

Sec. 206. Academic or Professional Train- 
ing Required After January, 1916: After Janu- 
ary, 1916, no person shall receive a third grade 
certificate unless he shall have had either 
academic training equivalent to one year in an 
approved high school of this state, or have had 
at least ten weeks professional training in one 
of the Oklahoma state normal schools. State 
University or A. & M. College or an institution 
in this state, or other state, having equivalent 
teachers' professional course, and no person 
shall receive a second grade certificate unless 
he shall have had either academic training 
equivalent to two years in an approved high 
school of this state or have had at least twenty 
weeks' professional training in one of the Ok- 
lahoma state normal schools, State University 
or A. & M. College or institution in this state, 
or other state having equivalent teachers' pro- 
fessional course, and no person shall receive a 
first grade certificate unless he shall have had 
either academic training equivalent to three 
years in an approved high school of this state, 
or have had at least thirty-six weeks' profes- 
sional training in one of the Oklahoma state 
normal schools, or State University or A. & M. 
College, or an institution in this state or other 

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state having equivalent teachers' professional 
course. This section shall never affect the 
right to a renewal under section 197 of Article 
14. 

Sec. 207. Fee for Certificates — Disposition: 
The county superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall collect from each party applying 
for a county certificate a fee of two dollars 
which shall be turned over to the county 
treasurer to be credited to the normal in- 
stitute fund of the county to be used only in 
defraying the expense of conducting normal 
institutes or teachers' training courses in that 
county. 

Sec. 208. Revocation of Certificates: A 
certificate issued under the provisions of this 
article may be revoked by the power issuing 
the same on the ground of immorality, or for 
any cause that would have justified the with- 
holding thereof when the same was granted. 



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City Certificates. 
Every city of the first class, and every 
incorporated town maintaining a four years 
high school fully accredited with the State 
University, is an independent district, and the 
Board of Education of such independent dis- 
tricts shall appoint two com'petent persons 
who, with the superintendent as chairman 
thereof, shall be styled "The Examining Com- 
mittee of the Board of Education," whose 
duty it shall be to examine the credentials of 
all persons who apply to them as teachers. 
The Examining Board shall make a written 
report to the Board of Education, who may 
issue a certificate to the person applying, or 
may require any or all applicants to pass such 
an examiniation as will satisfy the Board and 
Superintendent as to their competency and 
fitness to hold such positions. 



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EXAMINATION DATES 

FOR YEAR 1915 
State Examinations. 

For Primary, Grammar Grade, High School 
and Special Certificates. 
May 27tli, 28th, 29th. These examinations 
will be held at the places named in section 6 
of the General Requirements. 

For Institute Certificates. 

January 30th. Examinations will be held 
in the office of the county superintendents. 

County Examinations. 
Held by the County Superintendent. 

January 28th, 29th, and 30th in all counties. 

April 22nd, 23rd, and 24th in all counties, 

June 24th, 25th and 26th in all counties hold- 
ing Institutes during the month of June. 

July 29th, 30th and 31st in all counties hold- 
ing Institutes during the month of July 
and at the Normal Schools, the State 
University, the A. & M. College, the Pre- 
paratory Schools and the C. A. N. Uni- 
versity at Langston 

August 26th, 27th and 28th in all counties 
holding Institutes in August. 

October 28th, 29th and 30th in all counties. 

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Reading Citcle Examfnation. 

Held in the offices of the several county 
superintendents, June 5th. 

Eighth Grade Examination. 
For Common School Diplomas. 

April 15th and 16th, in all conuties. 
May 13th and 14th, in all counties. 



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